Wang Kun and Wu Yue Ming?
Suddenly in He Li Zhen’s mind appears those two names. She wants to both of them but the teacher behind her pats her back. “What are you doing? The group is dismissed.”
“Oh…. Oh.” He Li Zhen smiles toward the teacher and follows everyone get inside the building again.
He Li Zhen returns to the office room and takes out her schedule. This afternoon she will teach grade 12.6 for language and literature subject.
She sits down on her seat and looks at her lesson. When the bell, which signs the end of the first subject, rings, grade 12.6’s homeroom teacher, Hu Fei, comes inside the office room with a deep frown on his face. Peng Qian raises her face from her mirror and says: “How is it Hu Lao Shi (Teacher Hu)? It should be terrible right.”
Hu Fei waves his hand: “Just let it be. Don’t mention it. I really don’t know why should those two come back to the school?”
He Li Zhen asks: “Hu Lao Shi (Teacher Hu), what is it?”
Hu Fei sits down on his seat and drinks his water, Peng Qian talks with He Li Zhen: “Do you know that Wan Kun and Wu Yue Ming come to the school today?”
He Li Zhen thinks. As her expected, those two are Wang Kun and Wu Yue Ming.
Peng Qian looks at her and says: “No need to worry, they would arrive soon.”
Hu Fei puts down his glass with a force that makes those two female teachers be surprised.
“What are you doing Hu Lao Shi (Teacher Hu)?” Peng Qian says, “Why are you so full of rage?”
Hu Fei turns his head to look at them and says: “Later on you could see.”
“What do you mean?”
Hu Fei says: “Look at the school’s gate!”
The office room of Grade 12 is toward the southern side. The window is facing the playground. They could see the school gate from the window of the corridor outside.
He Li Zhen says confusedly: “What happens outside the school gate?” She is a bit curious, she stands up first and looks around.
“It’s better for them to not come! Every time they come over, they always make trouble, why should they come over with trouble! Is the school a place for them to make trouble?!”
He Li Zhen could hear Hu Fei’s complain from outside too.
There are five to six people in the school’s front gate. Because it’s too far, He Li Zhen couldn’t see thier face. But she could see that those males are young. They are dressing like good-for-nothing people. Their hair was dyed.
He Li Zhen returns to the office room and asks Hu Fei: “Hu Lao Shi (Teacher Hu), who are they?”
Hu Fei is still so angry so Peng Qian explaisn to her: “They should want to pick a quarrel, they are idlers. They use to fight with Wan Kun.”
Hu Fei laughs coldly: “Those students don’t learn well, they keep on making trouble. They should be caught by the police!”
He Li Zhen turns silence.
It seems the profession as teachers aren’t that good. There are too many responsibilities. No matter it’s a good or bad school but minding people is hard to do. So no wonder Hu Fei is so furious. No matter what he is Wan Kun’s homeroom teacher. If there’s a trouble, he should be the one that responsible.
“It’ll be alright. They have been fighting for so many times. Everything will be okay.” Peng Qian comforts Hu Fei.
Hu Fei snorts coldly.
Suddenly the bell, which is a sign the beginning of second subject, rings. Hu Fei takes his book and goes to another class.
Peng Qian sticks out her tongue and says: “Hu Lao Shi (Teacher Hu)’s temper is getting worse.”
He Li Zhen: “You couldn’t blame her for it.”
Peng Qian looks at He Li Zhen and says: “I’m not only comforting him, it’s really okay.” She turns her chair and says to He Li Zhen with a small voice: “Let me tell you, I had ever seen their fight. The standard is not that small.”
Peng Qian waits for He Li Zhen to ask her again. At last, He Li Zhen asks with big eyes. “You had ever seen it? How could you not stop them?”
“Ssst.” Peng Qian rolls her eyes, “I am not idle.”
He Li Zhen looks at her speechlessly and opens up her book with her hand. Peng Qian shrugs and says: “Those brats, supposedly they are watching too much movies and they exert a raging hormone.”
“………..”
He Li Zhen looks at the book and suddenly turn startled. She asked Peng Qian: “Wan Kun is twenty years old?”
“That’s right. He rested for a year, he stayed behind for another year. He also started school late.” Peng Qian sighs and says: “It seem that grade 12.6 students are mature, after all, most of them are detained students.”
“…….”
He Li Zhen doesn’t chat any further, she puts down the book and continues to read her lesson book.
She still has two periods before her class starts. He Li Zhen considers about what Hu Fei said to her. She feels that these students might enrich her experience.
Honestly actually He Li Zhen doesn’t think too much about Wan Kun. After all, he is a high schooler, he is young and arrogant. He should be a bit impulsive and childish. She thinks she could understand it.
For the first period in the afternoon, He Li Zhen gets into Grade 12.6.
Grade 12.6’s class at the end of the corridor.
The time she is about to get in, she could hear the noises of Grade 12.6.
Today it’s much noisier than before. The time He Li Zhen gets into the classroom, the noise is still on going.
Inside the classroom, several male students are gathering and chatting. Their voices are loud. The female students are chatting too, they talk about cosmetic and celebrity.
The time He Li Zhen is on the stage, she couldn’t help but to glance at the seats on the back.
Between male students, she could see someone is wearing a white shirt. Perhaps because of his age, his figure is much taller. This time Wan Kun moves his face and chats with one of the students.
Suddenly he notices something, he looks over.
Wan Kun is still joking with the other two male students. Those two students’ body sways. They block and expose Wan Kun and He Li Zhen’s view.
In short moment, He LI Zhen feels that the time freezes.
Wan Kun is sitting on the stool, his hands are inside his pocket.
In He Li Zhen’s mind, an image appears.
He is a man that squatted down near the small store, he smoked there.
Wan Kun and she look at each other for few seconds and then Wan Kun just lowers down his head. He Li Zhen also turns her head away, she holds hr book even tighter. She walks toward the stage.
The students are still playing around. Wu Yue Ming is chatting with someone and then looks at Wan Kun. “Should we go over later? Don’t let them wait for too long.”
Wan Kun says nothing. He seems to be thinking of something.
“Ay?” Wu Yue Ming pokes him. “What are you thinking about?”
Wan Kun asks: “What did you say?”
“I asked you whether we should go over there earlier. Cheng Yuan and those brats have been waiting for us since the morning?”
Wan Kun laughs and says: “Why should we go over earlier? Today it’s so hot. Let’s talk about it later.”
“Alright, then just let them to wait.”
He Li Zhen claps her hand and says: “Everyone, be silent. The class starts now.”
Those students finally realize He Li Zhen’s presence, her voice turns smaller.
The time the classroom turns silent, students take their seats and look at her. He Li Zhen looks around and purposely avoids to look at Wan Kun. She then lowers her head and starts to check the attendance.
The other classes of grade 12 don’t need to be checked for the attendance, but for 12.5 and 12.6, she needs too. As those two classes are full of students, who love to skip the class. So for every periods they need to be called.
She calls each one of students’ name and could hear everyone says “Here!”. The time she calls Wu Yue Ming, she hears a loud and clear noise — “I’m here——!”
He Li Zhen couldn’t help but to lift up her head, she never meet this student. He is not short but he is skinnier than Wan Kun. He is wearing the school uniform’s trousers and his own top. He is not only yelling but he also waves his hand: “Lao Shi (Teacher), it’s my first time to see you ah!”
Most students laugh, He Li Zhen’s expression turns serious and she says: “Be quite.”
He Li Zhen lowers her head and actually she doesn’t know why she lowers her head. She is just calling the students’ name for attendance. The last name, she needs to take a look again.
“Wan Kun.”
“Here.”
His voice is not like a high schooler, it’s deeper, senseless and expressionless.
He Li Zhen thinks of that night, he also used that kind of voice and went to stand out of the group. He sat beside her side and asked whether she wants to sing.
He Li Zhen feels that her ears are burning once more. That indescribable moment somehow shames her. She doesn’t look at Wan Kun. She turns her head and looks at the blackboard and says: “Let’s start our class. Everyone, open your book………”
She writes on the blackboard and hears the rustling noise of the book being flipped.
Wan Kun looks at the skinny figure on the stage. He Li Zhen is wearing the same clothes that she went to Xiu Ji that day.
Wan Kun then lowers his head, he throws his pen on the table. Then he straightens his leg to kick the person in front of her.
Wu Yue Ming notices and asks him: “What is it?”
Wan Kun doesn’t answer, he is looking at the sport field and swears: “……….Sh*t.”
Wu Yue Ming takes chance when He Li Zhen is lowering his head to talk to Wan Kun again: “Hey, what’s up?”
Wan Kun turns his head and says to him. “After the school, tonight I have things to do.”
“What?”
Wan Kun doesn’t answer, Wu Yue Ming says: “You’re going to find Cheng Yuan and friends?”
Wan Kun frowns and his face shows that he is impatient. Wu Yue Ming says: “Those brats just come here when they hear that you’re back? If you dislike them to be annoyed, then just let them go? It’s embarrassing ………….”
“Ming Zi.”
Wu Yue Ming looks at Wan Kun’s expression and says: “What happened?”
Wan Kun asks Wu Yue Ming to come closer, Wu Yue Ming coms closer and Wan Kun says something softy on his ear.
“What—-? “ Wu Yue Ming asks with his lower voice, he glares at Wan Kun. “Really?”
Wan Kun is sitting on his chair, Wu Yue Ming watches He Li Zhen, who is teaching seriously.
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